Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

39068returned home in 1998, whereupon they discovered that the house of the witness’s sonhad been completely looted and the witness’s house had been burned. He stated that heonly returned to his home on 16 March 1999. 1916423. Dušan Torbica, a Croatian Serb from Torbica hamlet in Kistanje village whowas 60 years old in 1995, 1917 stated that most of the young people, including thewitness’s children, had left the village eight to ten days prior to 4 August 1995. 1918 Theshelling of the village began around 1 or 2 p.m. on that day and continued into 5 August1995. 1919 The shells fell in the inhabited areas, though to the witness’s knowledge noone was killed in Torbica. 1920 The witness testified that the shells were coming from thedirection of the Promina mountains next to Drniš. 1921 On 5 August 1995, the witnessand his wife went on foot to Ervenik in order to escape the shells falling on Torbica. 1922Many other people were also leaving either by car or tractor. 1923 The witness and hiswife were eventually given a lift on the back of a tractor trailer until they reached theOčestovo-Knin cross-roads in Knin municipality, where they were stopped by someCroatian soldiers with painted faces. 1924 The Croatian soldiers ordered them off thetractor and one of them said he was from the 4th Split Brigade. 1925 After being asked ifthey had any weapons, the tractor driver handed over two rifles. 1926 At the cross-roadsthere were about 30 civilians who appeared to be leaving their villages. 1927 One soldierordered Dušan Torbica, his wife, and the tractor driver to line up next to a wall, afterwhich another soldier told them to go to a house next to the road where they and theother 30 or so civilians at the cross-roads spent the night in the wine cellar. 1928 Thedetainees included Zdravko Bunčić from Ivoševci in Kistanje municipality, Dušan andLjubica Stopalo from Obrovac, one Radović from ðevrske in Kistanje municipality, andLazo Drača from Ervenik. 1929 The following day those in the cellar were transferred byhorse carriage to the “Velika Vlahovića” elementary school in Knin where they were1916 P2507 (Zdravko Bunčić, witness statement, 8 September 2003), para. 20.1917 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 1.1918 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 2.1919 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), paras 2-3.1920 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 3.1921 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 4.1922 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 4.1923 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 4.1924 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), paras 6-7.1925 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 7.1926 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 8.1927 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 7.1928 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), paras 8-9.1929 P630 (Dušan Torbica, witness statement, 9 September 2003), para. 11.247Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `